Letter: Average citizens being exploited

Posted: May 7, 2014 - 7:44pm

The only thing that can protect me from a bad guy with a gun is making sure that the bad guy doesn’t get a gun.

Come to think of it, I’m protected from those terrible fraudulent voters but not from that unstable guy who made a purchase at a gun show. Average criminals will not choose voter fraud as their crime of choice.

Murder is a more serious crime. Denying health care coverage to 74,000 Kansans is certainly immoral. From time to time, it might qualify as murder, which is a sin. I’m guessing our governor is counting on being forgiven on his path to the hereafter.

Americans for Prosperity is not interested in our prosperity. The Koch brothers exploit average citizens to promote their agenda. They want you to oppose alternate energy sources so that they can merrily pollute your water and your air. They are scoundrels.

Racism is not a crime, but it is always wrong. No exceptions.

The president was born in the United States, but even if he had born elsewhere, he would still be eligible to be president. In 1967, questions arose regarding Mexican-born George Romney’s eligibility to be president. The Constitution requires that a person be a “natural born citizen” to serve in that office. Constitutional scholars at that time agreed “natural born citizen” means any person who is an American citizen at birth. If a parent is a citizen, the new baby is also citizen, no matter where he or she was born. That would include Canada, and Kenya.

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But better be Kwik and Hope that he doesn't suspect you have a gun.
Bad guys with guns don't like surprises.
i personally like to surprise the bad Guys with an even playing field by showing them my gun.
But you can wait and Call the cops if you want.

they'll just bring more guns.

The rest of your letter is Weird.

i mean

""Americans for Prosperity is not interested in our prosperity. The Koch brothers exploit average citizens to promote their agenda. They want you to oppose alternate energy sources so that they can merrily pollute your water and your air. They are scoundrels.""

So where Are the Americans for Prosperity Getting their Drinking water??

and I suppose that your closing paragraph gives your OK for Ted Cruz to run for President.

You're the ones who are confused or more like uneducated and your ignorance is showing.

George Romney is/was Mitt's father.

George Romney was the governor of Michigan and he was running for his parties nomination for president in '67.....and here's the kicker oh you of little brains, George Romney was born in Colonia Dublán, Mexico.

Totally agree with your sentiment. Its apparently all the rage these days to hate on the Koch brothers. Not sure why either....not gonna buy into the conspiracy theories. And how pray tell do they "exploit the average citizen"? You mean like mind control or something? Sheesh....

And more with making and keeping as much money as we possibly can.
no matter how poor we are
we all need MONEY and WANT AS MUCH AS WE CAN GET! A rich person has better advice on how to make money
than a poor person.

But I'm sure you know that.
Like you Knew that George was Mitt's Father.

We spent about a week pulling security for an EOD team that was working almost around the clock in Fallujah disarming and blowing up, mostly blowing up, anything that needed it as we pushed into the city. Good thing bout the detail was every 12 hours we rotated out with our team to a fire base bout 30 minutes outside town. At the base we had about 6 or 7 Iraqis that were always around selling gum, Chapstick, CDs etc. one guy cut hair. One day a little boy salesman asked me about a little iron on patch I had put on a stow bag I carried some personal stuff in. The patch was in the shape of the state of Arkansas with a confederate flag across it. The bottom said "my heart belongs to Dixie". The little boy pointed to it with a confused look and said in broken English "Dix...ie" then put his hands up in the air with a What?? Look. I said ya that's where I'm from. He goes noooooo man, you American. I know this. I laughed out loud and told him yes I was an American but I was from Arkansas. I got a look of total confusion. I hollered over to an interpreter we used all the time. He worked for a contractor and was Canadian, and black. He lost an eye a year or so before on a seperate stint in Iraq from an IED explosion. We called him bacon. So I explained to bacon a short version of the concept of Dixie, Arkansas , the Confederate flag and overall American statehood and citizenship. Bacon then explained to the little boy. Well at least I think so. We all talked about all kinds of stuff all through chow. So what's the point of this long useless and boring story?? I , an ol redneck white kid from a little town in Arkansas once had a conversation with a 9 year old from Iraq that didn't speak English, and a black one eyed Canadian that spoke 3 languages , that made more sense than the letter I just read above.

...did that letter have a point to make, or was it just a few quick liberal talking point diversions to keep our minds off other issues...like the economy, the completely-corrupt and constantly-lying Obama administration, poor jobs reports, record numbers of food-stamp recipients, disastrous foreign policy...y'know...all that "frivolous" stuff?

Not sure if you should cut down on the amount of attention-span shortening coffee before writing, or possibly, have at least one cup...to wake up?

Sorry I can only give one thumbs up because it deserves many more! Very well-written, witty story that perfectly describes this letter listing all the tired, inaccurate, lame democrat talking points. Good job, my friend.

Talk about citizens being exploited. Have any of you read about the KBA bonus. A newspaper published this report: The chief executive officer of the Kansas Bioscience Authority has received $150,000 in bonuses since taking the job 18 months ago. Duane Cantrell was hired by the KBA board of directors in November 2012 at a salary of $265,000 per year to lead the agency, according to figures provided by the KBA.

State employees received a $250 one time pay increase before taxes and KPERS deductions while state retirees received zero increase again. Forget about the Koch brothers exploiting the citizens.

...that the righties on here complain that Terry's letter is "all over the place" yet worship at the altar of a certain Doc Holliday wannabe who does the exact same thing several times a week. But I guess it's OK when conservatives do it.

American Heritage Dictionary definition of fascism: "...a system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."

and that one was not among them. Most sources don't think he said that.

He did, however, at one time, believe that Jews were taking over the world and wrote a large book called "The International Jew." It was based on The Protocols Of Zion. He later backed off on believing that claptrap. If you have a copy of that book, it might be worth something. But don't believe it. Nazis love this stuff.

One reason progressives and liberals will be talking about the Kochs is because they are spending their money on buying government like there was no tomorrow. And, at their age, maybe there isn't.

And why can't we talk about the Kochs when all your guys talk about is Benghazi or whatever Roger Ailes tells them to talk about that day? It's politics, folks. What do you want us to talk about in an election year? Kim Kardashian?

The problem with Obama, IF he wasn't born within US jurisdiction is §301. (a)(7)of THE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT OF 1952, wherein it states: "a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States, who prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than ten years, at least five of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years."

Obama's mother wasn't 19 years old when Obama Jr. was born in August of 1961. If she delivered Obama outside of US jurisdiction, he would not have been a US citizen at birth.